If you are relying on Charitable Purposes Soft Opt-In for any use cases (scenarios) and would be happy for me to mention your organisation in conversations, please get in touch to tell me a little more. It’s always good to have relevant stories of how charities we know, are benefiting from changes like this.
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If you were unable to attend the Data Protection Practitioners Conference 2026 recently, the ICO has made some resources, including slides, available for free download. You can find out more at https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/data-protection-practitioners-conference-2026/.
Following the news of the closure of Directory of Social Change last week, people have been asking about existing subscriptions (such as to Funds Online), purchases and event bookings. DSC mentions these things in their statement at https://www.dsc.org.uk/content/directory-of-social-change-is-closing-2/.
I am sure you will have heard much about this but, if you haven’t already done so, we recommend that you check in with whoever is responsible for any websites you own (some large providers will have a service status page or similar). Ask if they have applied any PHP security fixes that are needed. […]
This is more important than ever when Steve Gibson reports in Security Now! show notes https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-1101-notes.pdf, that the latest Patch Tuesday from Microsoft fixed more than 1,400 problems. And of course that does not include Mac, Android, etc and the list goes on. Are your systems set to automate as much of the update process […]